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. >> david, obama care is coming. how is that going to affect your company? >> we see obama care as driving change in the marketplace and change is good because maybe to your core question, the status quo is not acceptable. we need to take costs out of the system and increase quality. for us, focus more on services. the change in the marketplace is a positive. one of the biggest changes we see happening in the united states is the opportunity to partner with physicians, to collaborate with physicians, to drive increases in health quality. today we have over 50 collaboratives already up and running in the united states where physicians are more paid based on the quality of outcomes haves the quality of services. as a result, people are getting better quality of outcomes, better services and costs are coming out of the system. >> david, give us a -- your outlook for the year ahead and a little bit beyond that. to what extent, when washington is -- it's in the middle right now of the process of trying to find cost savings. do you expect some of those cost saving
. >> david, obama care is coming. how is that going to affect your company? >> we see obama care as driving change in the marketplace and change is good because maybe to your core question, the status quo is not acceptable. we need to take costs out of the system and increase quality. for us, focus more on services. the change in the marketplace is a positive. one of the biggest changes we see happening in the united states is the opportunity to partner with physicians, to...
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we're going to try to hold an obama nominee to a standard that president obama set. you laid it out correctly, that president obama, in the campaign, made a very very big deal out of the unethical immoral business of investing in the cayman islands. so you would expect -- you wouldn't expect him then to appoint somebody that did exactly the same thing that ends up making the president look hypocritical by nominating such a person who did exactly the same thing that they criticized governor romney for. >> being hypocritical in washington, that's certainly not very unique, i don't think, senator, right? i guess it's politics, the political season. i understand fully what you're saying, but you don't really have anything, right? no one is saying he even was a tax evader, just he did some of the same things that raised eyebrows during the election. >> unlike four years ago, we had several nominees from this administration that didn't pay their taxes. some paid their taxes and others withdrew their name. there's no charges against lew for that reason. but i think we do ha
we're going to try to hold an obama nominee to a standard that president obama set. you laid it out correctly, that president obama, in the campaign, made a very very big deal out of the unethical immoral business of investing in the cayman islands. so you would expect -- you wouldn't expect him then to appoint somebody that did exactly the same thing that ends up making the president look hypocritical by nominating such a person who did exactly the same thing that they criticized governor...
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president obama, holding a white house open data day hack-a-thon. today. joe had a different view of what a hack-a-thon was in the white house. but we'll bring -- >> bringing back gibbs and axelrod, and -- >> colleagues of yours. >> colleagues of yours. okay. we're going to continue on. the administration is inviting developers and tech experts to come share some ideas, hack-a-thons are common in the tech industry with the goal to figuring out creative solutions to problems you may remember facebook engineers celebrated their ipo by having a hack-a-thon. don't worry, jim. >> you got to love the name hack-a-thon, don't you? >> the fed minutes spooked investors on thursday. and our next guest took to twitter to offer his thoughts. joining us right now is bill gross. he is the co-cio founder and managing director at pimco and bill it's great to see you this morning thanks for getting up early with us. >> thank you, becky. i'm wide awake. >> we have been talking about your tweet all morning long. talked a little bit earlier just for anybody who didn't see it.
president obama, holding a white house open data day hack-a-thon. today. joe had a different view of what a hack-a-thon was in the white house. but we'll bring -- >> bringing back gibbs and axelrod, and -- >> colleagues of yours. >> colleagues of yours. okay. we're going to continue on. the administration is inviting developers and tech experts to come share some ideas, hack-a-thons are common in the tech industry with the goal to figuring out creative solutions to problems...
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austan goolsbee is the chairman of the former economic advisers under president obama. and jared bernstein is former economic adviser to vice president biden. he's a senior fellow at the center on budget and policy priorities and a cnbc contributor. of course we have steve liesman with us and our guest host today kelly king who is chairman and ceo of bb and t. let's go down the line. we were just talking a little bit, mark, about your adp prediction. the number was private payrolls. what are you looking for? >> 180,000 jobs. and unemployment rate stays steady at 7.8%. >> you're a little ahead. >> what is consensus? >> 160 to 166 depending on which one, i think thompson was at 160. >> i actually think if you had done one overnight, i think it's crept up. i think the expectation on the street is a bit higher than this 166 right now. >> why is that? >> because of adp. because of a bunch of other things. people seem to have gotten a little more optimistic. i read about half a dozen reports this morning, they were all in the 180, 190 range. >> did the issue impact -- >> ever
austan goolsbee is the chairman of the former economic advisers under president obama. and jared bernstein is former economic adviser to vice president biden. he's a senior fellow at the center on budget and policy priorities and a cnbc contributor. of course we have steve liesman with us and our guest host today kelly king who is chairman and ceo of bb and t. let's go down the line. we were just talking a little bit, mark, about your adp prediction. the number was private payrolls. what are...
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and we got obama care. and obama care, when you look at the complexities in that plan, health care costs are going to go up, they're not going to go down. and you've got temporary workers to deal with. retail has got a hell of a problem. going from 35 hours a week to 30 hours a week for a temporary employee. if you've got 50 employees. you want 49. there's so many complexities in these two things. so my concern about acceleration, is regulatory. warren may have a different view of that. >> interesting thing is i agree with everything jack has said, but it's -- it's i don't come away as pessimistic as he does. but he's absolutely right about, you know, about what's happening with health care, and everything. i don't disagree with a word that he said. that he said. >> and i'm not pessimistic, warren. i'm not pessimistic. i just think we -- we're at a position where we could really take off if we had the right policies. >> yeah. well i -- i -- the interesting thing kind of is that america really is doing bette
and we got obama care. and obama care, when you look at the complexities in that plan, health care costs are going to go up, they're not going to go down. and you've got temporary workers to deal with. retail has got a hell of a problem. going from 35 hours a week to 30 hours a week for a temporary employee. if you've got 50 employees. you want 49. there's so many complexities in these two things. so my concern about acceleration, is regulatory. warren may have a different view of that....